Published on 21/07/2024
Yesterday afternoon, the National Chairman of the NRM who is also the President of Uganda
HE Yoweri Kaguta Museveni hosted the coordinators and staff of the Office of the National
Chairman NRM – Kyambogo (ONC) at State House Nakasero.
The ONC is primarily mandated to protect the votes of the NRM Presidential candidate at every National election in addition to other roles on guidance of the National Chairman and currently managed by the Senior Presidential Advisor in-charge of Political Affairs Hajjat Hadijah Namyalo Uzeiye.
The NRM National leader, gave an opportunity lecture about the necessity of several government programs on Wealth Creation for Social Economic Transformation and other issues of National
importance.
The need to enhance the contribution towards the implementation of the Parish Development
Model, Emyooga and other government programs centred HE Museveni’s teaching urging
ONC to ensure their smooth implementation and inclusiveness of all the peasants at the parish.
He noted that the UGX 100 million extended to each parish as a soft loan payable within 24 months, has a multiplier effect that can benefit 450 persons within a parish at ago after a period of 5 years and thus a viable approach to uplift peoples’ livelihoods.
In the recent FY 2024/25, the PDM was allocated 1.007 trillion shillings for disbursement at the 10,717 Parishes in Uganda.
He acknowledges the concern of the lack of jobs for the Youth and cites commercial agriculture,
as a core sector among the four (4) wealth creation avenues of the government to create jobs and wealth for the youth.
He asked the participants to shun sleeping (okulambala) and refer to the Nyakana model of Wealth Creation using a one (1) acre of land and Irumba Model using three (3) acres to generate income while providing employment to over fifteen (15) persons.
He also noted that, mobilization is about “okukyeenura” meaning peoples’ needs that can be solved and waking up people to differentiate the good and the bad.
“Parish Development Model is rain that covers every part of Uganda”, stated HE Museveni in part of his teaching.
The President upholds to his faith that mobilization is realized only when peasants are
transformed to a modern society where they can access quality education, healthcare, clean water and etc.
The coordinators in their remarks praised Hajjat Namyalo’s uniqueness in the
mobilization sector citing the transformation of livelihoods of groups of PWDs and Women in
Busoga Sub-region through her empowerment approach(es) of assisting the poor to cultivate
their land for commercial agriculture, poultry projects for income generation.
The National Chairman challenged his youthful Bazzukulu-coordinators to utilize their
youthfulness to establish and transform their livelihoods as he did in the 60s using his saving as a
part time teacher to procure land in Rwakitura where he settled his family and demonstrated to
the community on how to adopt to yielding methods of agricultural farming.
He further re-echoed the need to ensure that children of the peasants have free access to
Universal Primary Education (UPE) and Universal Secondary Education (USE) without any
frustration of payments usually called for by the teachers in order to achieve the mass education
goal as set by the NRM government.
In other significant matters, the National Chairman NRM advised his mobilization to force to be careful about the evil of money not to fall victim to the rampant corruption on which he set all the necessary resources for its eradication.
Hajjat Namyalo thanked the National Chairman NRM for the continuous guidance he gives to
the country especially the Bazzukulu and put to his attention about the delayed compensation for
the land owners sitting the Karuma Hydro-power project despite the initially communicated plan
to pay off the all the affected persons before the commencement of the project.
Over fifty (50) victims jointly petitioned to court of law for government to clear their demands which is risking the success of the project implementation.
She equally informed the National Chairman NRM about the request from the Business Community in West Nile and Greater Mbarara to have an engagement with him to discuss on pressing issues necessary for enhancing wealth and Job Creation agenda.
